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Spaces for Children

The Built Environment and Child Development

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  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Carol Simon Weinstein

    1. Graduate School of Education, Rutgers — The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA

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  2. Thomas G. David

    1. Bush Program in Child and Family Policy, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Built Environment and Children’s Development

      • Thomas G. David, Carol Simon Weinstein
      Pages 3-18

  3. The Impact of the Built Environment on Children’s Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. The Development of Place Identity in the Child

      • Harold M. Proshansky, Abbe K. Fabian
      Pages 21-40

    3. The Physical Environment and Cognitive Development in Child-Care Centers

      • Gary T. Moore
      Pages 41-72

    4. The Environment as Organizer of Intent in Child-Care Settings

      • Elizabeth Prescott
      Pages 73-88

    5. The Institutions in Children’s Lives

      • Maxine Wolfe, Leanne G. Rivlin
      Pages 89-114

  4. Designing Spaces for Children

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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    2. Designing Settings for Infants and Toddlers

      • Anita Rui Olds
      Pages 117-138

    3. The Developmental Implications of Home Environments

      • Laura C. Johnson
      Pages 139-157

    4. Designing Preschool Classrooms to Support Development

      • Carol Simon Weinstein
      Pages 159-185

    5. Designing Playgrounds for Able and Disabled Children

      • Leland G. Shaw
      Pages 187-213

  5. Involving Users in the Design Process

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215
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    2. Children’s Participation in Planning and Design

      • Roger A. Hart
      Pages 217-239

    3. Imaging and Creating Alternative Environments with Children

      • Carol Baldassari, Sheila Lehman, Maxine Wolfe
      Pages 241-268

    4. Children’s Spaces

      • Michael Bakos, Richard Bozic, David Chapin
      Pages 269-288

  6. Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 289-289
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    2. Developmental Perspectives on Designing for Development

      • Theodore D. Wachs
      Pages 291-307

    3. Children’s Environments

      • Craig Zimring, Richard D. Barnes
      Pages 309-318
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About this book

As a developmental psychologist with a strong interest in children's re­ sponse to the physical environment, I take particular pleasure in writing a foreword to the present volume. It provides impressive evidence of the con­ cern that workers in environmental psychology and environmental design are displaying for the child as a user of the designed environment and indi­ cates a recognition of the need to apply theory and findings from develop­ mental and environmental psychology to the design of environments for children. This seems to me to mark a shift in focus and concern from the earlier days of the interaction between environmental designers and psy­ chologists that occurred some two decades ago and provided the impetus for the establishment of environmental psychology as a subdiscipline. Whether because children-though they are consumers of designed environments­ are not the architect's clients or because it seemed easier to work with adults who could be asked to make ratings of environmental spaces and comment on them at length, a focus on the child in interaction with en­ vironments was comparatively slow in developing in the field of environ­ ment and behavior. As the chapters of the present volume indicate, that situation is no longer true today, and this is a change that all concerned with the well-being and optimal functioning of children will welcome.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Graduate School of Education, Rutgers — The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA

    Carol Simon Weinstein

  • Bush Program in Child and Family Policy, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

    Thomas G. David

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Spaces for Children

  • Book Subtitle: The Built Environment and Child Development

  • Editors: Carol Simon Weinstein, Thomas G. David

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5227-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-5229-7Published: 29 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-5227-3Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 346

  • Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Cognitive Psychology

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